Humans have top-notch visual/spatial reasoning systems and we still bang our shins and elbows on stuff. We shouldn't be removing proximity sensors from cars, we should be installing them on people!
To that point, humans have a whole proprioception system (as well as the direct sense of touch) and auditory system to help feed that spatial reasoning system.
Ford is eliminating AM radio from its entire line (except where contractually required), saving, I suppose, less than $10/vehicle. They’d rather deal with the bad press to save a few bucks from their BOM.
I don't think the FCC cares about interference unless it affects other people.
Look at TVs and computer monitors for example. I've got a Samsung SyncMaster T240 monitor that blasts out annoying noise all across the 2m ham band (and nearby police and fire bands). I've got to turn it off if I want to usefully scan those bands with a radio that is within a meter of the monitor.
Yet it passed FCC certification. Yes, it is noisy, but even if I were in a small apartment it would not be noisy enough to interfere with someone in another apartment. It just is a problem near the monitor.
Not all TVs and monitors are noisy. When playing with an RTL-SDR on my 2017 iMac I've never found any significant noise coming from the iMac for example.
Unfortunately this is something that reviewers don't seem to ever test.
Almost every EV now comes without an AM radio because of the interference. The original tesla model S had an am radio, but now they dropped them. It's apparently not a requirement any more. They must have some some special work to somehow eliminate the interference of the electric drivetrain.
Worth noting there's other savings associated with reducing complexity; operational, supply, QA, etc. But yeah a car that's worth that much I think should certainly have them.
I’d pay extra if they remove FM too. My previous car always blasted the radio when started. The radio is either white noise or people talking or music that isn’t mine… not sure which is worse.
Throwback to a past where you cloud remove the audio player and replace it with one you bought, all for not that expensive.
Modern cars, like all tech, are losing customizability and repairability in favor of slick designs and vendor control. I just hope the car-equivalent of tower PCs never fully go away.
Almost every component of your car is the result of absolutely insane cost cutting and overworked suppliers. Car companies are notorious for putting enormous pressure on subcontractors to reduce prices at all costs.
On a podcast (Lex Fidman I think), the former head of the AI group seemed to say that Tesla would rather focus all of its resources on vision instead of using some resources on researching, specifying, ordering and calibrating sensors.
Munro & Associates estimates the cost of the sensor plus installation to be $8 so $96 across the car, and the rest of the cost for the wiring totals to $114[0] all including cost to install them.
From sales alone, ie. 420k a quarter or 1.6 million a year[1], they save $180M in a year and Munro estimates $100k/yr savings in removing them from their inventory.
Nah, that was much more defensible from a penny pinching standpoint since they would’ve had to reengineer their vehicles for larger DEF tanks, would’ve had to represent lower fleet mileage, etc.
You may have been remembering the GM ignition crisis which was exactly that — engineering team shipped inadequate springs at a potential cost savings of pennies per vehicle that allows the cars to turn off while moving.
This is the clearest example of an attention grab I have seen - it does nothing for commercial use of Llama unless they provide a version of the weights produced by them and not Facebook. (and they don't...they ask you to download them from Facebook's repo)
SQLite is literally a backend for MLflow, so the argument being made really is that you should just use SQL when you can, which is kind of adjacent to any criticisms of MLflow
Is querying the underlying SQL database officially supported in MLflow? Last time I used it, it wasn't documented. I took a look at the database and it wasn't end-user friendly.
As someone replied above, it's because SQL is just 1 backend and it's weird to expose an API that only works on 1 backend. Once you have many devs working together, you need a remote server. If you have a remote abstracted backend, it needs to have a unified API surface so the same client can talk to any backend. You might argue "This interface should be SQL", and to that I would say there are many file stores (like your local file system) that are not easy to control with SQL.
This resonated a lot with me. Often if I'm learning a language and I see no one is doing what I'm querying for, I take a step back and try to ask a more basic question
Right - I think this is part of the "scaling" of the internet. Those of us (relatively small set of earlier heavy internet users) are forced to change as the product is built for the wider audience.
what's also scary is that he could do this with pretty much every public company he wants (very few exceptions of companies with >200B market cap or so).
A promising engineer rises through the technical track by showing impact. You show impact by getting others to sign on to your vision. You request a budget. You engage with a lot of stakeholders through meetings. Sounds a lot like what we call a "people manager" but without all of the tools available to one.
Maybe a better way of framing it is people managers have too much power. In an alternate reality, "staff engineers" hire and fire and have budget signature powers, and "people managers" are more like HR-plus who manage interpersonal conflicts and deliver performance evaluations. The status quo is a remnant of how society has historically undervalued and infantilized technical workers.
Find My iPhone primarily uses the phone to self-report its position when requested over the Internet.
This new "Find My" network (what a stupid name, btw) also allows to use other devices to report positions of nearby devices for those that don't have a data connection (AirTags or iPhones that were powered off).
The problem seems to be that a single toggle controls both features, while the first feature doesn't rely the community network and should remain available even if you opted out.
As others are mentioning, I see two toggles, and the second toggle is "Find My network" which is the one that works by other people's iPhones detecting your iPhone even when it's offline, in power reserve mode, or powered off.
